2016 Postmortem

These people are highly tribal. They trust and believe anything their tribal leaders say. Everything outside the tribe is viewed with suspicion and disbelief.

Human beings do this sort of thing all the time, tribalism comes naturally to us, we have to train ourselves to look beyond the tribe. Education is supposed to teach that, clearly it no longer does for many Americans.

Ok, that's a problem that can be fixed, however the more dangerous problem is what the tribal leaders are saying to their tribe members. We know they are openly lying about everything. The white supremacist right has taken over the conservative echo chamber and is filling it up with lies and distortions and paranoia and general fear mongering. They know full well that members of the conservative tribe are fearfully loyal and trusting, they count on that, in fact, to propagate their hateful campaign. To them, the tribe's intense trust of the tribe is a tool to further their scheme.

Its disgusting, deplorable, and abusive.